[ale] FreeNX on Fedora Core 3

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I come to you now via FreeNX.  I had already gotten started on the 
nodeps option below before I found James' note.  Following the 
instructions on fedoranews.org, but adding the --nodeps option when 
installing seems to have worked. 

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

> Giving this a shot now, will advise.
>
> Mike Murphy wrote:
>
>> well, you could try to rpm -U --nodeps it. I suspect that like a lot 
>> of other stuff, the libraries, etc. it needs are there just like they 
>> would be with XFree.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 04/14/2005 11:28 AM, Dow_Hurst wrote:
>>
>>> I'm interested in a solution for this type problem too.  Is an 
>>> answer downloading and compiling XFree86 for the distro your 
>>> running?  Seems that would be the fix for such a problem.
>>> Dow
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: "Nathan J. Underwood" <ale1 at cybertechcafe.net>
>>> Sent: Apr 14, 2005 10:31 AM
>>> To: ale at ale.org
>>> Subject: [ale] FreeNX on Fedora Core 3
>>>
>>> I am trying to get FreeNX (server) working on my Fedora Core 3 Linux 
>>> computer so that I can view it using the NX Client via a MS Windows 
>>> XP Pro computer.
>>>
>>> I have the following:
>>>   - Fedore Core 3.  Relatively stock, but anything that wasn't 
>>> installed via the original media has been installed via yum
>>>   - I'm trying to follow the howto available at 
>>> http://fedoranews.com/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
>>>   - I downloaded the following RPM's from fedoranews.org
>>>     - freenx-0.3.1-0.rh.0.noarch.rpm
>>>     - nx-1.4.0-0.rh.4.i386.rpm
>>> When I try to install them (rpm -Uvh <pkg>), I get the following 
>>> dependency:
>>> /* Begin Error */
>>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>>          XFree86 is needed by nx-1.4.0-0.rh.4.i386
>>>          XFree86-tools is needed by nx-1.4.0-0.rh.4.i386
>>> /* End Error */
>>>
>>> FC3 (as I understand it) was installed with x.org (rather than 
>>> XFree86).   Can anyone offer a 'next step'?
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